Lure Fishing for Fresh Run Cod | First Kayak Fishing Trip 2023

[@smallfishinginsaitamajapan]

It is very nice to paddle a kayak and go fishing in the open sea. What a beautiful blue sea! I am a small fisherman in Japan. (From Saitama, Japan)広い海でカヤックを漕いで釣りをすることはとても素敵です。なんて美しい青い海！私は日本で小さな魚釣りをしています。（日本の埼玉より）

[@SlippyLimpets]

I love going kayak fishing but the can confirm that the sea is not normally this colour, it's normally dark grey- same as the weather. Thanks for your comment and tight lines👍🎣

[@davedelaney4290]

easy way to remember tide direction in northumberland "ebbs to edinburgh-floods to filey"😂😂

[@SlippyLimpets]

Haha, great tip. I normally remember it by ebb tide travels south, so it's SIN 😄

[@Baddad36]

I too use a trusty Ikea bag! I've attached a couple of old bolts and nuts to one of the handles.That way it keeps it open and sinks from the surface a wee bit and it works much better.

[@MsJon52]

I always look forward to your kayak fishing sessions, you never know what might turn up.

[@SlippyLimpets]

Thank you. I really enjoy making them, too. Thanks for the comment!

[@rob6989]

Great stuff 👏 👍

[@SlippyLimpets]

🙌🙌

[@ianturner3033]

Another glorious day, makes a glorious video.😲🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Very enjoyable and informative.👏👍🧑‍🎓 Plenty of fish to keep you busy.🎣🎣🎣🎣 Well done on christening the little jack, but the other lure, crawfish?, is something else.😲 Thanks for sharing your great session.👏👏 Take care and stay safe. 😷🙊

[@mikecurtis9617]

Super session, super video. My Sunday night routine now watching you fish 😊

[@SlippyLimpets]

Thanks Mike, appreciate it👍🎣

[@markhodgson1251]

You can't beat kayak fishing, great way to spend the day

[@SlippyLimpets]

Totally agree👍🎣

[@123boat]

Great to see you back out on the kayak 👍👍👍🎣

[@SlippyLimpets]

It was good to get back out on it. Welcome back to the comments section👍🎣🙌

[@johnwilson8999]

Great Kayak session mate, you're wetting my appetite to invest in a kayak well done, love the Northumberland coastline

[@martinjustice]

Lucky to catch the sun that far up Nathan. Good session for the fish too. Nice share, be well, M.

[@SlippyLimpets]

Haha, that'll be that for the rest of the year 🤣 tight lines M👍🎣

[@reiverone]

Pleased to see you back on the kayak, (my favourite viewing). When you paddle out eastwards, the ebb goes to your left🤔😜🤣. Brilliant session mate, and what a good stamp those coalies are. Like others are saying, must get some crawfish lures, they're killers. Don't take too long for the next upload. Cheers Arthur

[@londonviking3801]

Wicked sesh - love a bit of kayak fishing.

[@SlippyLimpets]

Got to admit, LV, I hate the faff of the kayak but always enjoy it when I'm out

[@londonviking3801]

@@SlippyLimpets Never seen anyone BLANK on a kayak. (hold my beer...) 🤣

[@CoastlineFishing]

That looked like an awesome little session. Lovely day to be out on the water.

[@SlippyLimpets]

Yep, both were brilliant. If I was being picky then the temperature could have been a few degrees warmer 🤣

[@CoastlineFishing]

@@SlippyLimpets ha! the warmer weather is slow up arrive this year 😂

[@daveredford7272]

Great video Nathan. Can't beat an Ikea bag, used to use them as a fish bag for years before they made proper fish bags

[@SlippyLimpets]

Too right, this one has lasted me 10 years, and doubles as a fish bag.

[@Kc-bs9zt]

quality little session there mate...they crawz❤ I caught my first pike of the year with one yesterday👌🎣

[@SlippyLimpets]

There doesn't seem to species they don't catch, had perch, codling, pollack....

[@Kc-bs9zt]

@@SlippyLimpets yes mate its definitely worth having a few in yer lure box👌

[@damienbennett4307]

Great session again Nathan, I always love the Kayak videos.

[@SlippyLimpets]

Thanks Damien, appreciate it mate👍🎣

[@motorsnutts6594]

Great video from the kayak Nathan , very productive, and near perfect conditions, appreciate your efforts mate 👍🏼👍🏼

[@SlippyLimpets]

It was a cracking little session. Thank you and tight lines👍🎣

[@michaelmaher3213]

What a mighty session.those craws really do the job.great to see the kayak out again.cheers nathan,great vid.tite lines bud.

[@SlippyLimpets]

I'm really impressed with them, they seem to work especially well when there's no bait fish around. Tight lines mate👍🎣

[@castersfishingwales2038]

Great stuff as always Nathan buddy!

[@SlippyLimpets]

Tight lines fellas👍🎣

[@gazzwad]

Gid up back on the yak!

[@SlippyLimpets]

I'm looking fwd to the next one already👍🎣

[@-UrbanSurvivor]

Superb fishing, what a lure, what a session, awesome stuff

[@SlippyLimpets]

Thanks Shelly 👍 🎣

[@stephenwilkinson4214]

Love to try a bit of kayaking looked gorgeous out there and it seems to be more productive than fishing from the shore. Really enjoyed the video Nathan, Cheers mate stay safe 👍🎣🎣

[@SlippyLimpets]

Aye, it is way more productive than the shore but a bit of a faff, with all of the gear, and heavily weather dependent. Thanks again Stephen and tight lines👍🎣

[@geoffpinkerton63]

Great vid mate looked a really fun session

[@SlippyLimpets]

Thanks mate, really enjoyed those few hours out on the water

[@stevecoppin4278]

Thank's for sharing another cracking session Nathan , take care & stay safe , tight lines

[@allythescot]

Great video Nathan,enjoyed,Ally

[@DavidTYork]

Great video and a great session. I have just picked up my (second-hand) Viking Reload and can't wait to take it out fishing. I picked up some great tips watching this. It was a few years ago now, but there was a 43lb cod caught on a long line not far out from the big skeer at Beadnell.

[@SlippyLimpets]

Lovely boat! That'll definitely help out in the tides of skye and churn up the miles. That's a monster fish! Shame the fishing isn't quite as good as that these days, but you never know🤞

[@DavidTYork]

@@SlippyLimpets I bought it as a job lot - it came with a Bixpy!! 👍👍

[@SlippyLimpets]

Current. What current?! Just turn Bixpy up 🤣

[@taranscott155]

Good session 🙂 I am reluctantly rigging my Prowler back up with the sonar - I don't like the weight and how it alters the kayak's handling, but it's a big old sea without knowing what is down there, so needs must. My daughter has asked to come with me next time I go out so calm seas and low wind on a weekend is required. That's a lot of nice-to-have's all coming together at the same time for Collywell Bay...

[@SlippyLimpets]

Aye, I know what you mean, my old prowler would never track properly with a transducer hanging out the the bottom of the hull. Saying that, if I had to choose between location and sonar, then navionics wins hands down. At least that way I can target structure and make the sea a little smaller. Fingers crossed conditions align for you. Tight lines👍🎣

[@Utube0939]

You have a good life! I would love to be fishing up in the U.K. right now..

[@SlippyLimpets]

I'm guessing you're based outside of the UK?

[@eprohoda]

Slippy- intteresting trip~later~

[@steverankin2137]

nice vid... enjoy the content and it makes me want to try sea fishing... just not sure where to start...

[@SlippyLimpets]

Give it a go. Get your self a cheap lure rod and some Razor Claw lures, head to your nearest pier and see what happens.

[@MrBloodandink]

hi nathan great videos, i was wondering could you do a video on how you check the weather and sea conditions in advance and how you interpret the information as i never see you turning up with your kayak to be met by seas that a gull would be fearful of as happened to me the other day lol

[@SlippyLimpets]

Hi mate, that's a good idea. I'll stick it on the board. I do live by the sea so it's pretty easy to check, but a quick insight is to use magicseaweed and any of the webcams they have available, for the area you'd like to fish. An onshore wind will often bring those swells in too.

[@MrBloodandink]

@@SlippyLimpets thanks, ive just found magic seaweed, i believe it ends soon I saw today. I live near scarborough so will launch from there. Just took delivery of a galaxy surgeon today so hopefully off out on it on saturday

[@elkayakfish]

Great video again. Love to see a kayak run out. 🎉

[@SlippyLimpets]

Thanks mate, it was great to dust it off. 👍

[@davidoldboy5425]

Cracking session

[@AMG63]

You have Inspired me mate,, time to get the yak out 👍

[@SlippyLimpets]

Plenty of fish around, nowt massive but good enough to keep entertaining. Hope you get amongst them

[@garrybryant4565]

Another great video Nathan.... ever thought about bait fishing from the kayak ? Catching those rays you caught last week from a small Kayak, on light gear would be fantastic sport. Maybe a bit tight for space in the Kayak, but a fun challenge. Great video, good sport and nice fish mate. Tight lines

[@joelmontgomery4496]

Brilliant M8

[@SlippyLimpets]

Thanks mate!

[@dazlee3257]

Nice one Nathan 👍 Brilliant session, really jealous of your codling that side. I'm gonna have to get some craws and give them a try, prawns are deadly for everything except pelagics here, you can drift a live prawn through a shoal of macks or gars and they won't touch it for some reason, peel one and they'll have it, fussy beggars🤣 I guess a craw is similar outline to a prawn 🦐.

[@paulcrellin7846]

Just watched the vid with interest .I have been looking at the z lures and wondering if they whould work on the hounds 🤔

[@davelester1985]

You should keep a couple to eat. After all that trouble and expense, it is worth it.

[@nefishingandtackle8557]

Well in mate 🎣

[@aaaaaa-gs4kv]

Hi mate, another great watch. Im getting my kayak out hopefully this weekend. Can i ask what make of craws you use and the size? Thanks. Tight lines.

[@SlippyLimpets]

Hi mate, they're called Z-Man Pro Crawz and only come in one size. They work really well with a 4/0 offset hook. Hope this helps and tight lines👍🎣

[@aaaaaa-gs4kv]

@@SlippyLimpets Thanks for the information. Much appreciated.

[@darrenbrignall5288]

Hi I've just come across your channel great video I'm just starting up kayaking soon and I live in Kent and I make lures in my free time what's the most popular colours you use for minos,shades,worms and crawlers. Can't wait to see the next video.

[@SlippyLimpets]

Welcome to the channel. It's hard to say, on this trip I caught with bright pink, green/silver, blue/silver and bright orange. I do tend to like natural colours unless the water is murky, then I swap to blues and purples. Hope you enjoy it when you get out know your yak!

[@garyweston5116]

Great stuff! Weather grand too - same up on Skye on Thursday and Friday. I got a tan… and a 5lb pollock at Neist! Early returner from spawn?

[@SlippyLimpets]

A tan from Skye is some achievement 🤣 was is it skinny for its length? Is so, more than likely it got its fin over early. Good going G!

[@archstanton6310]

Early season codling , not many left down hpool 🎣

[@SlippyLimpets]

Do you get more bass nowadays?

[@PaulDanciu]

I keep trying from shore...but not so efficient , i think still cold the water and not ar close the coast 😢

[@SlippyLimpets]

Definitely, I always do way better on the yak than from the shore at this time of year. Keep casting👍🎣

[@clancranstonlc]

Don't know if you've fished at Oban bro. We just hit it yesterday. Was trying for skate and caught every species but that 😅 pulled out some whoppers tho. Highly recommended buddy 👌

[@sammackay304]

Great video. Just getting started with my new fishing kayak. What is the fish finder please? Hopefully plenty cod up north scotland 👍

[@chrisdavison2022]

Glad to see we weren't the only ones suffering endless coalies on that mark...

[@SlippyLimpets]

I've never seen so many! Shame they don't get much bigger, they'd be great fun at about 5lb.

[@chrisdavison2022]

@@SlippyLimpets Maybe should've kept them for wreck flapper bait instead? You're not far from a couple there...

[@mrsamsebastian]

Come to Aberdeen for Kayaking :)

[@geoffsharp7713]

When you said you could smell fish and broke out the pink lures and the craw, I thought here we go 😂

[@SlippyLimpets]

🤣🤣 brought out the big guns! Geoff, I've never seen the finder so full of coalies, it's not often I paddle away from fish. Tight lines, mate👍🎣

[@mikenewman9637]

Hi Nathan, how are you rigging those craws? are you putting a dab of superglue behind the hook eye before easing the plastic into place? (I just tried one with a hitchhiker but it's too squirmy😀)

[@SlippyLimpets]

. I did try worm stops and texas stops and hitchhikers but super glue is the best method I've found, so far. Hope this helps and tight lines, Mike👍🎣

[@mikenewman9637]

@@SlippyLimpets Thanks, I'll give the glue a go. I reckon the Wrasse will like them too.

[@colindean8261]

Barbless hooks!!! Use them!

[@sandersson2813]

Brilliant. Been trying to get my ones out we have at work. Good to see you catching too. Lull over or just deeper water and different tactics?

[@SlippyLimpets]

Kayaking over there will be immense! Mainly the deeper water, I think, but then I haven't tried from the shore recently.

[@sandersson2813]

@@SlippyLimpets I'm getting a few more Pollock and cod, but nothing like i was in Jan, Feb and early march. Coalies everywhere in feeding frenzies which must mean the bait is arriving I can get into 20m+ from shore but most boat owners seem to be heading to much deeper. It will come good. Best thing about over here is......no litter

[@zoltankardkovacs5779]

Nice one mate i love the kayak. Cant wait to get out. Can you write the name of the lure down for me i going to have a go with it! Cheers

[@SlippyLimpets]

They're called the Z-man Pro Crawz. Hope this helps and good luck for when you manage to get out👍🎣

[@zoltankardkovacs5779]

Cheers mate

[@lukebellamy7601]

is that of seahouses?

[@SlippyLimpets]

Just a bit further south at Beadnell

[@robertcameron7252]

I’ve just got a kayak but I’m confused on rods what would 8-12ld be in grams thanks

[@SlippyLimpets]

Boat rods are rated by a test curve normally in lbs, rather than a casting weight in grams, because they're designed to fish vertically. Fishing vertically causes less stress on the rod than casting a lure. An example is my 15-50g lure rod can quite happily fish a 90g jig vertically.

[@robertcameron7252]

Or thanks mate that helps a lot thanks

[@sallywilliams3875]

I deffinately need to try those crawls, what hook and weight combination do you use?

[@SlippyLimpets]

Depends on the lure and depth, but for that model I use a 4/0 hook with a 40g cheb. The chebs can be swapped around easily if the water is shallower. Hope this helps

[@sallywilliams3875]

@@SlippyLimpets thank you, just ordered the kit. Hope I have as much success as you!

[@SlippyLimpets]

@sallywilliams3875 nice one! If the fish are there then they will hammer it. Tight lines👍🎣

[@johnnybreedt3653]

Might be a silly question, when does a Codling become a Cod? Size?

[@SlippyLimpets]

Not silly, it's a legit question. Some people say 5lb, others say 6lb.

[@daricisz73]

Hi, where you fishing ? Cornwall, Wales ?

[@SlippyLimpets]

Hi, I'm in Northumberland

[@daricisz73]

@@SlippyLimpets so its North Sea ?

[@yogeshshrama9739]

Having fished multiple s in different sizes and colors, kzbin.infoUgkxCbNOWAGmn6nfbCbJDmasvBq7J38KZNw2 this is by far my favorite. One thing to be aware of is the sided willow blade. One side is silver and the other is the green/orange shown. This is not bad, just unconventional. In terms of fishing, I have found the lure works just fine without a tail like a craw or shad. That addition is up to you. Also, the hook part where you attach the swivel snap or tie the line is a problem on baits these days, since it's able to slide up and down. However this lure seems to be tight enough that that doesn't happen often, and you can solve it by putting a thin slice of medical tube over the hook before attaching the line. Like others have said, it's really magic on a good windy day.

[@SlippyLimpets]

I know what you mean, the summer hasn't been great. A dry suite would keep you nice and warm though

[@firstnamelastname9013]

🎣🎣👏👏👍👍

[@SlippyLimpets]

Thanks Mate 👊🙌🙌👍🎣

[@davedawson9851]

Kayak /'kaɪæk/ A vessel with all the trimmings for softies removed i.e. Chelsea tractor, trailer, engine, spare engine, deck, cabin, stove and sleeping arrangements. Coveted by shore fishermen everywhere. See also 'Kazoo'.

[@SlippyLimpets]

Alreet Dave, haha, that used to be the case, but times are a changing. Plenty of yaks out the now with peddle drives, electric motors, jet drives and heated suits🙄

[@davedawson9851]

@@SlippyLimpets It still looks like a Kazoo though. But closer up.

[@SlippyLimpets]

@@davedawson9851 can't argue with that. It also looks like something else

[@t-bonemarb2540]

crap shirts bro

[@SlippyLimpets]

Shirts? Do you mean my merch?

[@markrainey3268]

Sent you pm on your Facebook account great video again 👌👌

[@SlippyLimpets]

Thanks mate, I'll have a look👍🎣

[@markrainey3268]

No problem 👌👌👌

[@scottferguson1122]

Hi mate great video as usual looked great fun what kayak is that you have thanks ?